This could get expensive

I'm no Mauser expert, but there are things there that I'm betting are rare. I didn't know the Germans used 22 trainers - but with the Hitler Youth it makes sense. The full wood Ross really has my attention though.
 
Reichswehr had bunch of .22 trainers.

They were limited by the Versailles Treaty to 60 rounds of fullbore per man per year. With a 100,000-man army, that made 6 million rounds a year: not enough for ANY MG training, no enough for a single target session before qualifying. So they bought .22 trainers, for which the ammo was unlimited, limited qalification to every SECOND year...... and had 3 million rounds a year to train machine-gunners. The men got good on the .22s, so used only 30 rounds on qualification...... which made another 1.5 million a year available for the MGs.

When Unser Seelige Adolf (the guy with the stiff arm problem) became Chancellor, ammunition shortages became a thing of the past and the .22s were released, most of them going to the Hitler-Jugend. They were supplemented by very-military versions of the Mauser DSM-34 (Deutsche Sport-Modell - 1934). Both KKW and DSM are commonly referred to as "Hitler Youth rifles".

I had a DSM Mauser. Iron sights, stocked and sighted like a 98k, safety like a 98, .22LR rimfire, single-shot, locked by the bolt-root like a Cooey, sighted to 200 metres and was that sucker ever ACCURATE! If I could see it, I could hit it. No guff. Wish I still had it, but an undercover cop stole it, along with my Ross Cadet: another super-accurate little rifle. Cadet showed up at a gun show in Saskatchewan about 12 years ago but I couldn't afford it!
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Pretty awesome collection, for sure. Perhaps the TFH in me, but why no further information; is this how these things usually go - create hype first, then announce some for sale on limited release in person, ship some....guess if all of these do exist in one place, its in the hands of the executor now...let us bow our heads;

Our Executor, which art in Victoria;
Hallowed be thy (stock)room.
When the Kingdom comes,
The Auctioneer's will be done,
In person as well as online.
Give us this day our daily bid,
And forgive us our gunlust,
As we forgive the gunlust of the higher bidder.
Lead us not into the room without a number,
But deliver us from Dave Hester;
For thine is the auction, our collective sanity and the firepower,
Forever and until the gavel comes down,
Amen.

:p
 
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